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Some stuff from interviews today:

 

Rolston says there are many positions up for grabs this year. Tallinder will be paired with Pysyk not Myers. Myers will be paired with Ehrhoff.

 

Teppo will be behind the bench coaching the defense and PP. The new guy from Harvard, Forton, will be upstairs.

 

Darcy says Hodgson should be signed today.

 

Ott says he's talking extension with the Sabres. He wants to stay.

 

Millsie is renting a place.

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Some stuff from interviews today:

 

Rolston says there are many positions up for grabs this year. Tallinder will be paired with Pysyk not Myers. Myers will be paired with Ehrhoff.

 

Teppo will be behind the bench coaching the defense and PP. The new guy from Harvard, Forton, will be upstairs.

 

Darcy says Hodgson should be signed today.

 

Ott says he's talking extension with the Sabres. He wants to stay.

 

Millsie is renting a place.

 

All good stuff.

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Headshots and bloodwork. Yay!

Auditions for something questionable?

 

Some stuff from interviews today:

 

Rolston says there are many positions up for grabs this year. Tallinder will be paired with Pysyk not Myers. Myers will be paired with Ehrhoff.

 

Teppo will be behind the bench coaching the defense and PP. The new guy from Harvard, Forton, will be upstairs.

 

Darcy says Hodgson should be signed today.

 

Ott says he's talking extension with the Sabres. He wants to stay.

 

Millsie is renting a place.

Wow that all actually makes a lot of sense.

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So who is our 2nd line center and good.

Grigorenko gets first crack at it?

 

It's just training camp. I think Rolston wants to get a look at some of the younger centers.

 

Grigorenko is definitely a center.

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Rolston says Ennis and Girgensons will start camp on the wing.

 

oh, praise be.

 

i am very, very much looking forward to the return of ennis's greasy (ruff's term) and creative game. center was too much for the guy, at least at this point in time.

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Miller on the home sale:

 

“I’m renting this year. The sale of the place played out a little differently than I thought it would. People are either going to believe this or they’re not, I’ve watched a lot of guys in this town sit on their residence after they’ve left town for a couple of years. After I got married I decided at a certain point, that house wasn’t going to be good enough for a family. I identified a time when I wanted to sell it and it was going to be in the last year of my deal, so I didn’t get stuck with it and the way it worked out it does look like, ‘OK, I’m out of here’.”

 

"People are going to believe it or they’re not going to believe it, but I thought it was a smart business decision to at least have it on the market in the last year of my deal so I didn’t get low balled. The way it played out I just had to laugh to myself and say this is not going to be looking good to the people of Buffalo. I’m not racing out of town, but I understand how it looks.”

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oh, praise be.

 

i am very, very much looking forward to the return of ennis's greasy (ruff's term) and creative game. center was too much for the guy, at least at this point in time.

 

Amen brother. This is great news. In my mind he either makes it as a 25 goal scoring winger or he is out of here

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Some stuff from interviews today:

 

Rolston says there are many positions up for grabs this year. Tallinder will be paired with Pysyk not Myers. Myers will be paired with Ehrhoff.

 

Teppo will be behind the bench coaching the defense and PP. The new guy from Harvard, Forton, will be upstairs.

 

Darcy says Hodgson should be signed today.

 

Ott says he's talking extension with the Sabres. He wants to stay.

 

Millsie is renting a place.

 

I get it, we want our two best D playing big minutes together on that top pairing. However, if Myers struggles early I hope they quickly move Tallinder back with Myers. Will it work? It may or may not. I don't love the fact that Tallinder is on this team period. The only value I see is if he can help fix Myers.

 

Having said all that, I have high hopes for Myers this year. From all I've read he's been in town working out with the Sabres most of the summer so if we can get his conditioning right immidiately then it should be easier to fix some of the other problems.

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This is going to a very interesting camp. The Sabres have more bodies than space at both the NHL and AHL levels.

 

Miller and Enroth are set in goal. Vanek, Hodgson, Stafford, Ennis, Leino and Ott have contracts and pedigrees that guarantee them NHL jobs up front. The same goes for Ehrhoff, Myers and Weber on the blueline.

 

That leaves twelve openings with 20 players legitimately in the hunt.

Kaleta, Scott, Porter, McCormick, Ellis, Tropp, Adam, Tallinder, Sulzer and McBain are veterans who will have to clear waivers.

Foligno, Flynn, Girgorenko and Pysyk are prospects who can be sent down, but appear to have spots based on last year

Armia, Girgensons, Larsson, Ristolainen, Ruhwedel and McNabb are rookies who might be ready for the next step.

 

Are the Sabres legitimately ready to embrace youth at the NHL level? Or will Darcy protect assets by not exposing players to waivers - letting the kids simmer in the AHL until he creates space by trading some of his veterans off?

 

I'd bet big bucks on plan B.

I'd also bet big bucks that he will be trying his damnedest to trade someone from the clear waivers group before the season starts.

It's no wonder Gerbe got dumped. Poor Gillies should have picked another team to jump start his career with.

 

I agree with most of this. I don't think Flynn is a lock for the NHL roster though -- from what I saw he was just another bottom-6 guy, of which they have plenty.

 

Also, as for Plan B, I agree that DR does not let assets go to waivers until he has to. However, I think he feels this way only about real assets -- so while he might perform some roster gymnastics to avoid having to expose, say, Tropp or Adam to waivers, I don't think he would do so to protect, say, Sulzer or McBain.

 

I could see them keeping the following 13 forwards and 7 defensemen:

 

Vanek, Hodgson, Stafford, Ennis, Leino, Ott, Foligno, Grigorenko, Kaleta, Scott, Porter, Tropp, Girgensons

 

Ehrhoff, Myers, Weber, Pysyk, Tallinder, Ristolainen, Ruhwedel

 

Waivers/Rochester: McCormick, Ellis, Adam, Sulzer, McBain

 

Rochester (no waivers): Armia, Larsson, Flynn, McNabb

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I agree with most of this. I don't think Flynn is a lock for the NHL roster though -- from what I saw he was just another bottom-6 guy, of which they have plenty.

 

Also, as for Plan B, I agree that DR does not let assets go to waivers until he has to. However, I think he feels this way only about real assets -- so while he might perform some roster gymnastics to avoid having to expose, say, Tropp or Adam to waivers, I don't think he would do so to protect, say, Sulzer or McBain.

 

I could see them keeping the following 13 forwards and 7 defensemen:

 

Vanek, Hodgson, Stafford, Ennis, Leino, Ott, Foligno, Grigorenko, Kaleta, Scott, Porter, Tropp, Girgensons

 

Ehrhoff, Myers, Weber, Pysyk, Tallinder, Ristolainen, Ruhwedel

 

Waivers/Rochester: McCormick, Ellis, Adam, Sulzer, McBain

 

Rochester (no waivers): Armia, Larsson, Flynn, McNabb

 

Rolston said they will keep 8 D this year, but yeah.

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Caught this detail in today's article:

 

The Sabres also are attempting to strengthen their approach to analytics with Jason Nightingale, who will serve in the role of hockey data analyst, and have broadened scout Graham Beamish’s duties to include statistical analysis.

 

Jason Nightingale:

 

A 2002 graduate of Lake Superior State with a bachelor of science in mechanical engineering, he was named the outstanding student-athlete in engineering and the outstanding graduate in engineering in 2002.

A native of Cheboygan, Mich., Nightingale played for the Lakers from 1998-02....

 

An outstanding student-athlete, Nightingale moved on to Notre Dame where he won a graduate student fellowship in mechanical engineering and applied mathematics from 2003-07. He earned his Masters of Science in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering from Notre Dame in 2007 and is currently working on his Ph.D in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics. While at Notre Dame working on his Masters, Jason served as a teaching and research assistant (2003-08) and is back in that role again while working on his Ph.D.

 

Nightingale and his wife, Alice, an All-American basketball player at Lake Superior, ... Alice received her PhD from Notre Dame in 2010 and is a Faculty member in the department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at Notre Dame.

 

This is exactly the type of analytics person teams should hire. Someone who loves the game and has played in a few different places, has a couple of advanced technical degrees, and is a total applied mathematics nerd, so much so that they married other nerds. Bonus points for the teaching assistantship; he should be able to communicate complex ideas well.

 

Nice to know we have an engineer/mathematician working on the inside.

 

Miller posted his new mask today

 

Well, it's blue and gold. That's good.

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